{"id":44569,"date":"2012-09-13T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44569"},"modified":"2012-09-13T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T09:21:35","slug":"planetary-annihilation-destroys-kickstarter-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44569-planetary-annihilation-destroys-kickstarter-goal","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Annihilation destroys Kickstarter goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Kickstarter has provided a solid platform for many game projects, and Planetary Annihilation has fully benefited from it, by doubling its target and looking pretty damn impressive in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s makers, Kirkland-based Uber Entertainment, met their Kickstarter goal with ease, and the backers and RTS-community are happy to be seeing the gaming coming to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary Annihilation throws some new tricks and ideas into the beloved RTS formula. Battles take place across a series of nearby planets. Local asteroids can be colonised, mined and turned into huge kinetic weapons with a few well-placed thruster units. The announcement video provides a concept visualisation of what such an attack would look like in-game.<\/p>\n<p>Started in 2008, Uber Entertainment has delivered such games as Total Annilhilation, Supreme Commander, Demigod, and more. CTO Jon Mavor and art director Steve Thompson are the project\u2019s leads.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary Annihilation has racked up $1,824,110 in backing, with the Kickstarter campaign coming to an end tomorrow (14 September 2012).<\/p>\n<p>In the words of the Uber guys: \u201cLet\u2019s destroy some planets!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/659943965\/planetary-annihilation-a-next-generation-rts\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/44439-pc-exclusives-heading-your-way.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PC exclusives heading your way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42586-dayz-to-be-launched-as-standalone-title.html\">DayZ to be launched as standalone title<\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43797-hawken-gets-oculus-rift-support.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hawken gets Oculus Rift support<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42414-doom-4-to-have-oculus-rift-support.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Doom 4 to have Oculus Rift support<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Ouya console is \u201caround the size of a Rubik\u2019s cube\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41814-ouya-console-is-around-the-size-of-a-rubiks-cube.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ouya console is \u201caround the size of a Rubik\u2019s cube\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetary Annihilation is an RTS game set to make an impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":44570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2366,6746,6748,6747,1345],"class_list":["post-44569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-kickstarter","tag-planetary-annihilation","tag-real-time-strategy","tag-rts","tag-uber-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44575,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44569\/revisions\/44575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}